// updated August 2026
I went quiet for a while—months, not weeks. That's the honest version. A lot happened in that time, and it changed where I'm headed. So I did the honest thing: took the old work off this site and started from a clean page. The old articles aren't gone, they're archived—but they belong to a chapter that's closed.
The clean page has a direction now: I use AI to solve my own real problems—and show what actually happened.
-- current focus
- home-cooked software Building the small software I actually need, with AI. Latest: a dictation app, because every existing option annoyed me. Its story is the first write-up of this chapter.
- experiments Taking ideas from papers, implementing them, and reporting whether they're actually useful. Negative results count.
- practice Improving how I work with AI day to day—fundamentals over tools, small operational wins over frameworks.
- newsletter Still brewing. It launches when there's something worth sending, not before.
-- not doing
Chasing platforms, posting on a schedule, or pretending the last few months didn't happen. Restraint is still the brand.